Trump just told the country, out loud, that he picks up the phone and orders federal prosecutors to investigate elections when he does not like how the vote is going.
He bragged about it twice this week.
He says he called a U.S. attorney in California, told him to "do me a favor," and look into a race his candidate might lose.
Here is the reality.
There is no evidence whatsoever of fraud in California's primary. Even Republican Steve Hilton, the candidate Trump claims he rescued, said he never heard about any call. LA County's top elections official said no one at the Justice Department touched their process. The count was not rigged. It was slow, because of how thorough California's system is.
Every registered voter is mailed a ballot.
Every returned ballot has its signature checked against the voter's file before it counts. Late-arriving mail ballots are still valid if postmarked by Election Day, etc.
Slow is not fraud.
If there are responsible ways to speed up the count without risking accuracy or security, I am all for it. Better fund our election offices, modernize ballot processing, and the like.
But that is not what Trump is doing. He still can’t admit he lost in 2020, so every election he dislikes becomes a crime in his mind.
Now he is bragging that he will aim federal prosecutors at results he does not like.
Explore ways to speed up the count responsibly and legally, yes.
Let a president investigate his way to the outcome he wants, never.
https://t.co/iQqwvliMKq
Imagine not wanting the government to infringe on your freedoms as a Christian while simultaneously working to have the government infringe on the freedoms of others in the name of Christianity and refusing to admit the blatant hypocrisy.
Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away.”
Trump admitted their goal was to end free speech by falsely labeling resistance to fascism as “domestic terrorism.” It has already resulted in the Prairieland protesters being sentenced to 450 years in prison.
It'd be nice to have a Speaker who'd say: "And let them, we have nothing to hide, and they'll look like fools for doing it."
But what he's saying here is: They're gonna uncover a lot of stuff, and you don't want that.
Mike Johnson:
Democrats "will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted."
"I run the protection program. We'll take care of you, OK?"
The Supreme Court has ruled that chemical company Monsanto cannot be blamed for failing to warn people about cancer risks with the main chemical in Roundup, glyphosate.
Trump recently signed an executive order to boost domestic production of glyphosate.
NEW: If USPS moves forward with its proposal to withhold mail ballots from states that don't share private voter data, "it will destroy the Postal Service," one advocate warned.
After the postmaster general defended the plan, critics fear the USPS could threaten the integrity of American elections. https://t.co/q4eLSbWCvr
The Trump administration will no longer provide public notice or consider public feedback when planning drilling and logging projects in federal forests.
Anyone who can't see what is happening is blind.
1) Banning of the ability to have privacy with a cellphone
2) Banning of the ability to own a foreign router (which may not "comply" with future "required" legislation )
3) Identity checks at the OS, App Store and Service provider levels.
4) Ability to restrict individuals access to the internet, to given types of content, etc
5) Forced front and center "official" news media forced into online services.
6) Control over AI algorithms
7) Control over algorithms for visibility/sharing of content
8) Control over peoples cars (remote kill switches, embedded biometrics, automated reporting to LEO, inebriation checks).
9) Forced biometrics to login to computers, phones, etc
10) Digital ID to replace physical ID.
11) Digital cash to replace physical cash
12) Millions of biometrics and license place cameras + millions of "gun shot detection" systems
13) Banning of mobile applications and endpoint software the government deems wrong, dangerous, or incorrect, etc. (Tiktok, Kaspersky, etc)
14) AI being embedded in every processor, mobile device, desktop OS, etc.
15) Laws demanding "backdoored" encryption.
16) Laws demanding client side scanning.
17) Laws demanding control over speech deemed harmful, violent, dangerous, upsetting, etc
18) Charges and convictions against anyone releasing privacy focused software (tornado cash).
19) AI predictive policing and predictive dissent detection
20) Centralizing of all healthcare, psychological, financial, online, offline, travel and government records.
21) Forced biometrics collection to travel, attend public events, etc
Let me be really clear about what just happened.
The head of the U.S. Postal Service sat in front of the United States Senate and said the quiet part loud: no voter list, no mail ballots. Full stop.
You don’t get to look away from this one.
This is a proposed rule. It’s being fought in court. But the fact that it was said — that a federal official openly threatened to withhold your ballot — that matters.
Your vote is yours. Not the administration’s. Not USPS’s. Yours.
Stay informed. Stay loud.
Your tweets and retweets aren't going to do shit. Pressure matters if you want to stop KOSA. Why do you think it hasn't passed yet? Because we used https://t.co/iPxvmaorsX to call representatives and put pressure on them not to pass it. But we NEED all hands on deck.
“Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
WOWOW. DOJ committed fraud with this--they're NOT actually Antifa. You bozos just put up a new label after you decided to go after them.
I guess President AOC will have to prosecute you guys for fraud on this one.
people who showed up to a protest outside an ICE facility and left when things got chaotic are getting HALF CENTURY sentences in federal court right now, my god
“Hubo injerencia de Estados Unidos en las elecciones colombianas.", dijo Petro.
Trump afirma que De La Espriella ganó gracias a él.
A confesión de parte, relevo de prueba.